You can see that matrix was made by mossad glowies by how it stores the entire chat history in the database (along with gigabytes of other stuff)
In contrast to xmpp that deletes most stuff after 2 weeks so it runs on your $5 vps without problems
cc @thatbrickster
+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@newt @iska @thatbrickster @m0xee maybe was about the poast matrix db vacuum adventure?
matrix is good to replace messengers and shit to replace irc. the state syncing model of matrix just doesn't scale, but is nice for use as messenger.
xmpp is a bunch of incompatible implementations of XEPs.
@newt @iska @thatbrickster @m0xee back in the days i had a synapse which crashed shortly after startup because someone joined a room which was too big. required some precisely timed curl requests to fix that 
@newt@stereophonic.space @bonifartius@qoto.org @thatbrickster@shitposter.world @m0xee@social.librem.one matrix people decided to use python for synapse
@m0xee @newt @bonifartius
Yeah, the original idea of a chat as a distributed database just doesn't work. It takes my server sometimes up to several hours to join a big room with thousands of participants.